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This article introduces AdSense Direct, a new way to use AdSense to manage advertising that you directly sell ads on your blog or website - and to fill those spaces with AdSense ads when there are no Direct ads running. AdSense have announced a new feature called AdSense Direct, which will let AdSense publishers (ie people showing ads on their blogs or websites) manage directly-sold ads using their AdSense account. "Management" means that after an advertisement and campaign details are set up and approved, the ads will show on your site without any changes to your site (apart from having AdSense ads in on it), and having all contracts, invoicing and payments handled through your AdSense account. How to use AdSense Direct Arrange a direct deal with an advertiser -- this can be any advertiser, even one that doesn't currently use AdWords. Enter the details into your AdSense account; more details about this here . You will be given a link which you email (etc) to the adverti...

You can put a picture anywhere in your Blogger blog that you can insert a gadget - and you can make it link to a post in your blog or to any other website. The Image gadget Dry dock in Claddagh Basin A very simple way to put a picture into your blog is to use an Image gadget (previously called a Picture gadget). This is a tool that Blogger provides to make is easy to add a picture that shows up on all screen and is linked to somewhere. Often gadgets (sometimes called widgets or page elements) are put on the sidebar - but in many blogger templates they can go in other places too (header, footer, etc). Follow these steps to add a picture gadget in Blogger 1  Make sure you know where the original picture is  and that you have copyright permission to use it . 2  Copy the location (URL or file system full path-name) of the picture - and remember whether it's on your computer, or on the internet. ( This article tells you how to find the URL of a picture that's alread...

This QuickTip explains why I now feel happier about using elements from Google Sites in my blogs. What is Google Sites, and why would a Blogger use it Long ago (back in the late 2000's) there was a product called Google Pages, which people could use to make their own simple websites. It wasn't the greatest product that Google ever made (or purchased), and eventually it was retired, with websites made with Pages transferred over to the newer Google Sites . Sites always seemed a bit clunky. It doesn't seem to have a huge number of users.   And there are vastly better products for building more-complex websites, and for building simple ones (eg using Blogger to make a "real" website ). Now, I did use a Sites filing cabinet as the document-store for one of my sites that makes lyrics of certain public domain songs available in PowerPoint format. I chose it before Google Drive had been released, and when Docs was not nearly as good as it is now. And SEO does ...